Not working... hrm..

[Zzyzxx71]

Currently I use a /cast [target=Shaboom-target] Lightning Bolt setup ATM.

This makes failover very difficult, if I lose the main, I have to continue targetting with the main. I'm looking into alternatives, and I'd prefer not to use focus right now.

I'd like to get away from hardcoding names into the macros for obvious reasons, and /cast [target=targettarget] PewPew works fine for my purposes.

So now I just need to handle the failover...

I've modified a macro in the "big wiki of macro's" and have come up with this..

/target [target=Shaboôm, nodead] [target=Shabôom, nodead] [target=Shabôôm, nodead] [target=Shàboom, nodead]
/follow

... but it doesn't work. I've killed the brain, but all it does is target the dead guy.

Ideas? Have I grossly missed a blatant error here?

[Khazrael]

I've been having this same issue as well. I did a search and went through some of the results, and most of what I've found involves using focus, which is actually what I was kind of hoping to avoid. I didn't want my primary macros (follow, assist) to rely on focus in case I wanted to use it for other things.

What most people seem to do though, is set the focus to their secondary target, or even have specific buttons mapped to focus the next target so they just hit that button to renew focus, then continue operating as normal. Definitely a viable solution.

[Chorizotarian]

I use this with a few tweaks:
Using action bar pages to free focus.

If you're interested I can post my exact macros later. (At work filling out tax froms now, ugh.)

[Zzyzxx71]

Fixed it - isn't it always that you find the answer 3 minutes after posting? I was missing semicolons...

/target [target=Shaboôm, nodead]; [target=Shabôom, nodead]; [target=Shabôôm, nodead]; [target=Shàboom, nodead];
/follow

*sigh*

Ugh it's awesome to finally have failover.

[Khazrael]

Fixed it - isn't it always that you find the answer 3 minutes after posting? I was missing semicolons...

/target [target=Shaboôm, nodead]; [target=Shabôom, nodead]; [target=Shabôôm, nodead]; [target=Shàboom, nodead];
/follow

*sigh*

Ugh it's awesome to finally have failover.

Keep in mind there is still a downside to this. I still use my follow macros in combat if I don't want to waste mana and just want to melee something to death. This will actually change the clones target to the first person that meets the requirements. A simple press of your assist and you should be fine, of course, but I was hoping to find a way around having to even do that.

I wonder why /follow [target=name] and such don't work.

[thinus]

I wonder why /follow [target=name] and such don't work.

Perhaps because...

/follow name

works...?

[thinus]

Fixed it - isn't it always that you find the answer 3 minutes after posting? I was missing semicolons...

/target [target=Shaboôm, nodead]; [target=Shabôom, nodead]; [target=Shabôôm, nodead]; [target=Shàboom, nodead];
/follow

*sigh*

Ugh it's awesome to finally have failover.

Keep in mind there is still a downside to this. I still use my follow macros in combat if I don't want to waste mana and just want to melee something to death. This will actually change the clones target to the first person that meets the requirements. A simple press of your assist and you should be fine, of course, but I was hoping to find a way around having to even do that.

I think the OP stated that his abilities are used in macros with [target=targettarget] which means he *wants* his target changed. He does not use assist.

[Khazrael]

I wonder why /follow [target=name] and such don't work.

Perhaps because...

/follow name

works...?

It sure does smartass, but that doesn't help me if i want to add conditionals, such as exists,nodead, or to add a second target clause if the first one is not met.

Thanks for trolling.

[thinus]

I wonder why /follow [target=name] and such don't work.

Perhaps because...

/follow name

works...?

It sure does smartass, but that doesn't help me if i want to add conditionals, such as exists,nodead, or to add a second target clause if the first one is not met.

Thanks for trolling.

Please calm down with the name calling, you are not on the wow forums. You didn't specify anything about conditionals or different targets. I responded to what you wrote, I can't read your mind.

[Khazrael]

Please calm down with the name calling, you are not on the wow forums. You didn't specify anything about conditionals or different targets. I responded to what you wrote, I can't read your mind.

Yet rather then try to understand why someone might want to use such a thing, you choose to post inane responses to it that serve no purpose other then to be inflammatory. You're right, these aren't the wow forums, which is why there's no reason to respond with such mindless dribble as you did to my earlier post.